"Who throws a shoe? Honestly, you fight like a girl."
Posted on 10/19/2009 10:57:37 AM PDT by markomalley
GENEVA (AP) - The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush leaned back in his chair and soaked in the round of applause.
This was not Baghdad or Damascus or Beirut. This was Geneva, where Muntadhar al-Zeidi was given a hero's welcome Monday far warmer than the subdued reception in his own homeland.
"I am one of the victims of the occupation," al-Zeidi said at a press conference alongside two local politicians, repeating his allegations that he was severely tortured, including with electric shocks, during his nine months of Iraqi detention.
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Al-Zeidi's reception in Switzerland was noteworthy. While his shoe-throwing act of protest in December made him a hero for many in the Muslim world, there was little public outpouring of support for him when he was released last month in Baghdad.
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In Geneva, those issues faded as al-Zeidi was cheered by reporters and others after recounting his tale of torture at Iraqi hands, his inspiration for throwing the shoes at Bush, and his demands that U.S. forces leave Iraq and Bush face an international tribunal.
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Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, too.
“Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, too.”
Probably in the works...”Honorary” Prize for Best Footwear Attack on a Colonialist Aggressor...
How much more sick have these EUnuchs become, and all with the active aid and comfort of their fellow travellers in the US.
Would there have been an international uproar, if the Secret Service had capped him?
Watch out, Switzerland. You’re next. And some in Switzerland know it. In 2007 the Bern city council rejected plans to build one of the largest Islamic cultural centers in Europe. A current political initiative would ban the building of minarets on any future mosques that are approved for construction.
Reporters. What is the answer to the radical left-wing international media?
“Cheered by reporters... “
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How many were in pink?
Coward. I’d like to see how long he’d have lasted if he had thrown his shoes at Saddam.
"Who throws a shoe? Honestly, you fight like a girl."
“...al-Zeidi was cheered by reporters and others after recounting his tale of torture at Iraqi hands,”
Torture? What did the Iraqis do, take away his dildo?
We need to turn our backs on the EU and see how they love Russia, China and the Muslims without the US to back them up.
I thought this guy was killed a while back...
nope different guy...
Or how Cheney ate 2 human babies every morning before crushing a nest full of baby birds between his cloven hooves in front of the peaceful Muslim Freedom Fighters?...
Switzerland will enjoy dhimmitude.
Same S***, Different Day.
Give him a visa and then arrest him for endangering the life of a President. I’m be on the jury and gladly convict. Scum of the first order.
Sorry, but Switzerland is not part of the EU.
Anyway, the article leaves unstated who exactly attended that meeting. Could’ve been a bunch of Muslims (more than enough of them in Switzerland as well) or UN riff-raff. Better source, anyone?
At least two reporters were scolded by the imam of a Geneva mosque for posing more challenging questions or making certain remarks, even as al-Zeidi spoke about unfair restrictions on journalists in Iraq.
This tends to suggest to me that there were at least a bunch of islamists present, not your regular Geneva citizens.
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